Blueberry muffin mix
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0016000302303 · Betty Crocker · Cooking helpers. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Blueberry muffin mix by Betty Crocker scores 100/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 32 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 0 ingredients are flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 32-component record, beginning with Enriched Flour Bleached, Wheat Flour, Niacin. That density can include amounts and label fragments, so verify the physical label before relying on ingredient order or completeness. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.
- 100/100
- Safe safety score
- 0
- None flagged · of 32 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- E
- Nutri-Score nutrition grade
Computed directly from OpenFoodFacts ingredient data cross-referenced with FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings. See our methodology for the scoring formula.
Composite profile score
One verdict from three independent sources
58/100
Grade C
Ingredient Safety
100/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
E
Nutri-Score front-of-pack nutrition grade
Weighted 50% ingredient safety / 25% processing level / 25% nutrition grade. A dimension with no data for this product (common: source coverage is partial) is dropped and its weight redistributes across the remaining dimensions, so missing data never silently lowers the score. See the full benchmark table.
00302303 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Blueberry muffin mix label screening desk
13 of 32 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Datem). Source sheet 00302303 · Open Food Facts · July 2026. The screening score and flag counts are in the verdict band above. This desk is the provenance stamp, not a second scorecard. Methodology · Read with nearest score peer: Nature Valley Crunchy Variety Pack · Nearest score peer is Nature Valley Crunchy Variety Pack at the same screening score.
Screening model notes
How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record
Within the four-tier shelf-label framework this site publishes, the composite for this product falls in the highest band. That band is defined by a threshold on the derived score alone: it is where labels land once components carrying caution-or-worse registry ratings contribute little or nothing to the deduction. The band is a summary of what the screened registries return for the components that were parsed, so it inherits their coverage gaps — a component absent from both registries neither raises nor lowers the figure. The threshold and the weighting behind it are set out on the methodology page.
Nutri-Score assigned its lowest band to this label. The algorithm reserves that grade for nutrition panels where the values it penalises sit well above the components it credits. The two systems on this page measure genuinely different things: a product can hold this grade while carrying no additive flagged by the registries screened below, and a product graded well can carry several. Neither reading substitutes for the other, and the per-component table is where the additive picture is set out.
This label parsed into a long component list. Where many entries are screened at once, the composite tends to reflect the overall mix of registry ratings returned rather than the rating of any one entry. Longer declarations also carry more sub-listed and compound entries, where a parenthetical group is resolved into its parts, so the parsed count can exceed what a reader counts on the packaging.
Cross-brand screening score neighbourhood
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 4,660 products we've scored in the Cooking helpers category, the average safety score is 90.9/100. Blueberry muffin mix scores 9.1 points above that category average (100/100 vs. 90.9/100), so it is a comparatively strong pick for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.
Ingredient-list length vs other Cooking helpers products
Blueberry muffin mix lists 32 ingredients on its label
32 88th percentile a longer ingredient list than 88% of the 1,898 products we track
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Distribution as text
- 0–2
- 36 products (2%)
- 2–4
- 95 products (5%)
- 4–6
- 146 products (8%)
- 6–8
- 252 products (13%)
- 8–10
- 178 products (9%)
- 10–12
- 121 products (6%)
- 12–14
- 148 products (8%)
- 14–16
- 124 products (7%)
- 16–18
- 111 products (6%)
- 18–20
- 107 products (6%)
- 20–22
- 84 products (4%)
- 22–24
- 74 products (4%)
- 24–26
- 58 products (3%)
- 26–28
- 47 products (2%)
- 28–30
- 51 products (3%)
- 30–32
- 42 products (2%)
- 32–34
- 30 products (2%)
- 34–36
- 27 products (1%)
- 36–38
- 19 products (1%)
- 38–40
- 13 products (1%)
- 40 and above
- 135 products (7%)
Source Open Food Facts, product label ingredient lists · July 2026
Ingredient-list length is a descriptive property of the label, not a safety rating. A longer list is not automatically worse and a shorter one is not automatically better; the count is shown so the label can be placed against a comparable population. The comparison here runs against the 1,898 Cooking helpers products we publish with a parsed label, not against the whole catalogue, because list length varies far more between categories than within one.
Ingredient Safety Analysis
Full Ingredient List
enriched flour bleached (wheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), sugar, artificially flavored blueberry bits (dextrose, palm oil, corn flour, citric acid, artificial flavor, blue lake 2, red lake 40), palm oil, corn syrup, dextrose, leavening (baking soda, sodium aluminum phosphate), modified corn starch, salt, egg white, propylene glycol monoesters of fatty acids, mono and diglycerides, datem, soy lecithin, whey, sodium stearoyl lactylate, sodium caseinate, xanthan gum, cellulose gum, artificial flavor,
Other products containing Artificially Flavored Blueberry Bits
Artificially Flavored Blueberry Bits is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 4 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
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High-score cross-brand comparables for Blueberry muffin mix
Neighbours outside Betty Crocker with screening scores in the same high band as Blueberry muffin mix (100/100 here). The 5 same-brand links above stay within Betty Crocker; these peers cross brands.
Same high-band screening score
Nearest cross-brand products by screening score (100/100 here, no caution flags on the parsed list).
Long-label peers (21+ ingredients)
Nearest cross-brand labels by linked ingredient count (32 on 0016000302303).
Read the longer label in layers
Read the longer label in layers
Blueberry muffin mix has a longer ingredient list than 88% of its Cooking helpers category comparison set. Use the ingredient table before relying on its single screening score.
- Open Datem first, then work through the remaining 32 parsed entries. Inspect ingredients
- Compare this longer label with a cross-brand product of similar list depth. Compare label depth
- Use the methodology to separate a derived screening score from dietary or medical advice. Read the boundary
This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.
Barcode 0016000302303: product data from Open Food Facts (July 2026). Screening from FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine where attached. Figures are computed from those sources, not editor-typed. Methodology. Reference only, not dietary or medical advice.